How to Use homegrown in a Sentence

homegrown

adjective
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  • The family sells their homegrown vegetables at the local market.
  • The music festival will feature some homegrown talent this year.
  • The team once planned to build around homegrown players.
    — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Don't miss the cool establishments south of the train tracks, or the many homegrown breweries in town.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Ballard hails from Kansas City, where the Chiefs built this in a more patient and homegrown way.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2023
  • He got involved with the academy early, and signed a homegrown contract with the club in 2017.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Coming through the academy seems to bring an extra sense of pride for homegrown players in the first team.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The videos show that the same practice take-off location the paragliders used had also been used to test Hamas’ own homegrown drones.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The rise of homegrown acts like Babytron and newcomers Ice Spice proved that hip-hop’s new landscape is abundant.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Republic has trumpeted the virtues of our state's homegrown restaurants for decades.
    — AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Some of her favorite looks have been sourced locally from homegrown brands.
    — Natascha Hawke, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Indeed, the band’s best-of collection from 2011 was the best-selling album by a homegrown act in Australia last year.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But the fall of what was billed as a successful homegrown business has nonetheless hurt.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • Instead, the Dodgers said Buehler — their homegrown, two-time All-Star and 2022 opening-day starter — will focus on coming back for the start of next season.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The British press has given its homegrown Panther Solo 2 a tremendous buildup.
    — Ray Hutton, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Dodgers non-tendered Bellinger after the 2022 season, giving up on a homegrown player once touted as a core piece of the franchise.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In fact, homegrown activists have been planning for a takeover of Santa Ana politics for years.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But the Patriots still have some decisions to make on their young homegrown talent.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Peppers, on the other hand, is truly a homegrown Panthers Hall of Famer, as well as the first player the Panthers drafted to be enshrined.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Their inspiration to recreate the look and feel of heirloom sheets with homegrown cotton.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 8 May 2023
  • Those homegrown talents were supplemented by some of the hottest prospects from overseas.
    — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • By the last quarter of the 20th century, there was little of Britain's homegrown industry left standing.
    — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The most notable of the Dolphins’ departures included a pair of homegrown talent.
    — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Egypt’s prisons are already full of homegrown Islamists.
    — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The emirate has made its mark on a global scale thanks to a crop of homegrown restaurants, innovative chefs, and global flavors.
    — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Guests arrive here eager to appreciate the works of the Netherlands’ homegrown artistic hero.
    — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
  • Nintendo is in a league of its own and keeps all of its homegrown titles exclusively on its devices.
    — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This isn’t data-center scale, but the Huawei Mate 60 smartphone that came out last year got some attention for its homegrown 7-nanometer chip.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Above all, homegrown heroes trump all for domestic leagues.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Ukraine has relied instead on its homegrown drone designs.
    — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023

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